I've seen at least 32 movies from 1940. Here are my favorites: 1. His Girl Friday 2. Fantasia 3. The Philadelphia Story 4. Pinocchio 5. The Grapes of Wrath 6. The Shop Around the Corner 7. The Great Dictator 8. The Thief of Bagdad 9. The Broadway Melody of 1940 10. The Bank Dick 11. Contraband 12. T...

Why are there no British musicals? Because I can think of several.

Here are the academy's choices for 1968: Romeo and Juliet Funny Girl Ice Station Zebra Oliver! Star! And here are my choices: 2001: A Space Odyssey The Battle of Algiers Clearly these are the first two choices. The first is one of the most stunning visually of all films. The second gives an image of...

I remember seeing it Christmas Day, 1976.

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I'm watching it on DVR as I type this. I'm about halfway through it. It's such an odd movie, having many of the beats of the original, but trying not to be a simple copy of it. The substitutions are odd, but don't have the energy of the original. I can certainly understand why McBride replaced the c...

And if we had to include two of the Academy's nominees?

Picture: Unforgiven, which becomes the front-runner
Actor: Eastwood. Now he would probably win
Actress: McDonnell, the only other one I've seen. No difference
S. Actor: Davidson, no change
S. Actress: no change

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Flying Devils (1933)

Next: Parachuting

Moonraker

Next: Chinese youth

Now it's time for 1992. Here are the Academy's choices: ACTOR Robert Downey Jr. – Chaplin Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven Al Pacino – Scent of a Woman Stephen Rea – The Crying Game Denzel Washington – Malcolm X ACTRESS Catherine Deneuve – Indochine Mary McDonnell – Passion Fish Michelle Pfeiffer – Love ...

The Keys of the Kingdom?

Last week I saw three movies. What can you say about The Cheat ? What can you say about a movie about a woman who embezzles money from her charity, blows it all, and then makes a deal with Sessue Hayakawa, who goes all yellow peril when he seeks to collect the debt? That it shows Cecil B. DeMille's ...

Kidnapped?
Anthony Adverse?

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Little Lord Fauntleroy?

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